Wake-Up Weather: Gorgeous today, warmer and more humid for the holiday weekend

Your sunrise summary of everything you need to know about weather in H-town.

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Warmer today, with lots of sunshine.

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It’s another cool morning — Houston bottomed out at 41 degrees, just above the record low for today — but it’s going to warm up nicely this afternoon into the low 70s with lots of sunshine. It should be rather beautiful.

With winds veering to out of the southeast tonight expect the warming trend to continue with highs rising to 80 degrees by Friday and lows climbing into the mid-60s.

The forecast models remain split as to whether it will rain this weekend, and my best guess is that parts of Houston will see some very light rain on Sunday, but that it won’t be widespread.

It appears as though Houston’s weather is heading into something of a holding pattern, with low to very low rain chances and slightly warmer than normal temperatures hanging around for awhile.

10-day forecast from the European model shows a slight warming trend continuing throughout the period. (Weather Bell)

If you’re wondering when the next cold front might arrive to break that pattern up, well, the answer right now is: Who knows?

haiku

“72″

One more cool spring day,

Then we fall in a warming

pattern for awhile.

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On this date in 2001 severe storms produced 2.75 inch diameter hail from Missouri City to Fresno.